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Tender is the Night and F. Scott Fitzgerald's sentimental identities /

In this fascinating study, Chris Messenger posits F. Scott Fitzgerald as a great master of sentiment in modern American fiction. Sentimental forms both attracted and repelled Fitzgerald while defining his deepest impulses as a prose writer. Messenger demonstrates that the sentimental identities, ref...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Messenger, Christian K., 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Identitities; 1. "Rare," "Whole-Souled, ""Vicious": Fitzgerald's Ambivalence toward Sentiment in Book One of Tender Is the Night; 2. Replacing the Dead Sisters: Fitzgerald's Narrative Incorporations of Sentimental Mourning; 3. "So Easy To Be Loved-So Hard To Love": Sentiment, Charm, and Carrying the Egos; Part II: Refractions; 4. Sentiment and the Construction of Nicole Warren Diver; 5. Ophelia, Zelda, and the Women of Tender Is the Night; 6. The Uncanny in Fitzgerald's Sentimental Imagination; Part III: Influences.
  • 7. "The Queen Moon Is On Her Throne": Fitzgerald's Maternal Hero "Plagued By" Keats and Florence Nightingale8. "How Many Women Is Power": Dickens' Sarah Gamp and Ventriloquizing the Sentimental; 9. Sanctuary and Little Lord Fauntleroy: Sentiment, Sensation, and "Two Faces"; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index.